Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 April 2004 15:59, Cian Cullinan wrote:
>>>1) I've partitioned the SCSI disk in advance and done "mkfs.ext3 -j" on all
>>partions except the swap. Will this work or will I have do something like
>>>>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
>>>>for the MBR before I can go and partition /dev/sda?
>>> I would be very surprised if you could copy the MBR in this way.
> In any case, it seems to me perfectly sensible to partition the disk
> and create file-systems before doing anything else.
>>>>2) I'm planning on booting from a Fire CD mounting /dev/hda partitions
>>read-only and using cp to copy them to the /dev/sda partitions. Sound
>>reasonable?
>>> I would use "cp -a" as you suggest.
> You have to be careful not to copy filesystems mounted on subdirectories,
> eg by umount-ing them before copying the main system.
>> But I'm sure the ILUG gurus will give better advice.
>
Won't cp bail out on a failed read?
tar should give you more control of stuff like this:
( cd /src/ && tar --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system cf - . ) |
( cd /dst/ && tar --preserve xf - )
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